Job Description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Organization Overview

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing around the world to create new state-of-the-art manufacturing site’s and continue expanding our existing facilities to created capacity required to continue with our mission. The brand-new facilities will utilize the latest technology, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. Lilly is also investing in Business Development through Acquisitions to proactively seek future medicines.

What You’ll Be Doing?  

As an Execution Lead, your main function will be to lead exciting projects involving acquisitions, divestitures, and special projects.  Special projects include new global sites for research and manufacturing. Execution Leader is a key role within the Business Development organization.

How You’ll Succeed

You will lead the start-up, planning and execution for high level IT projects with a focus on Acquisitions and Divestitures.
You will lead the IT start-up, planning and execution of new sites including Manufacturing and Labs.
Must oversee project staffing, progress, risks, escalations, and change management.
Typical projects may include company-wide IT new service implementations, more focused technical releases, acquisitions, mergers or divestitures, but generally involve coordination of 10-15 different workflows per project.
You will be responsible for multiple simultaneous projects, the number of which depends on the size and scope of each (typically varies between 4-7).
Must ensure project status and risks are appropriately communicated to all relevant audiences, including users, key stakeholders, customers, Alliance partners, team members, business and IT partners and management, etc. 
You must proactively leverage resources to obtain a basic but solid understanding of all IT areas to enable effective leadership of technical project resources.  Topics include networking, telecom, voice, Cybersecurity, Office 365, domain transfers, servers (physical and virtual), laptops, mobile devices, physical security systems, virtual computing, printers, Audio Visual, Identity Management, enterprise, and scientific software, etc. 
You will oversee and work with the PMs assigned to the projects to ensure all key target dates are met, dependencies between workflows/teams are coordinated, appropriate tasks are planned, tracked, and reported accurately. 
Must be compliant. Many project workflows and tasks involve working in an “interim” space, where standard processes are not well-defined or applied.  This role leverages contacts and management to appropriately navigate these “gray areas”, ensuring feasible, yet compliant solutions. 
You will develop a large array of partnerships across many business functions, including Alliance Management, the core businesses (Clinical, Regulatory, Research, Manufacturing), Records Management, Quality, etc., and most of the departments within IDS. 
You will gain proficiency and lead various technical specialities or processes that are specific and useful to the team.  This includes providing framework, tools, documentation, and consultation for the team, such as server management, data transfer and verification's, telecom, etc. 

What You Should Bring

Demonstrated ability to deliver complex, large projects and is recognised as an influential colleague.
Demonstrated ability to proactively take accountability and leadership within a wide variety of situations, to aggressively drive projects forward to meet key deadlines.
Desire and ability to learn a large variety of technical IT topics
Demonstrated ability to establish a large network of relationships across a variety of business functions
Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to anticipate, mitigate, or proactively resolve them.

Your Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related technical field.
With a minimum of 5 years’ experience in technology and leading complex projects.

About the Organization

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.? 

Personal Considerations

Developing others – strives to improve the skills of team members or others by providing clear, behaviorally specific performance feedback, effective coaching and mentoring, inclusion, and development experiences and opportunities.

Directing others/holding people accountable – develops and issues effective strategies and interpersonal styles and uses the power of the leadership position to set expectations for others, enforce rules, confront others about problems, and tell others what they must do toward the accomplishment of identified objectives and goals.

Empowerment – empowers individuals and groups by sharing responsibility so that they have a deep sense of commitment and ownership, participate and contribute at high levels, are creative and innovative, take reasonable risks and are willing to be held accountable, and demonstrate leadership.

Influence – uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods and logical arguments to convince others to accept an idea, plan, activity, or product.

Team leadership – be able to develop cooperation and teamwork while leading a group of people, working solutions and tracking risk.  Influence the direction of the team.

Flexibility – be able to work with team members from multiple locations, geographies, cultures, and companies.